Life is like a weed, and it grows endlessly18
Four years can change a lot of things, and it can be said that the city is changing with each passing day, but in the remote mountain village, four years can hardly change anything, except that the people are getting older, and the village is still the same village.
Fang Yinan sat in the courtyard, the big plastic basin was placed on the ground in front of her, it was full of dirty clothes, and there was a washboard in the middle.
She raised her hand and rubbed the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand, her pale sideburns already wet with sweat.
"Mom, you haven't cooked yet, have you? I'm starving! β
Nine-year-old Lan Mao scurried out of the house, with chubby arms and legs, propping up his clothes to the brim.
Fang Yinan said impatiently: "I didn't see that I was busy, looking for your father." β
Lan Mao snorted: "He went out early in the morning, and he hasn't come back yet, who knows where he went." β
"Where else can I go? Went out to play cards again, right? You'll go to the west of the village in a momentβ"
"Fang Yinan!"
This shout was deafening, Fang Yinan raised his head suddenly, and saw Lan Yaowu striding back from outside, his face was heavy, but his eyes were faintly a little frightened.
She sighed in her heart, hurriedly threw down the clothes in her hand, stood up and wiped her hands on both sides of the seam of her pants to meet her: "What's wrong?" What's wrong? β
Lan Yaowu glanced at Lan Mao, and suddenly lost his temper, "What are you doing here?" Go in and do your homework, and see if you can't kick it, you're a dead man. β
Lan Mao pursed his mouth, wanting to refute his father with a hippie smile as usual, but Lan Yaowu suddenly picked up the washboard and pointed it at him, Lan Mao was startled, "I write, I just write, why do you still beat people?" β
He turned and ran.
Fang Yinan snatched the washboard, "What are you doing here?" Why are you scaring your son? β
"If you're angry outside, you'll come back and take our breath, do you have any chance?"
"Heh, you still have the face to say!" Lan Yaowu was furious, pointed at Fang Yinan's nose and said, "The good daughter you gave birth to is too promising!" β
"What do you mean? What daughter? Fang Yinan was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, "Do you have any news of Lanshuang?" β
Lan Yaowu sat down on the bench in the courtyard, took out a cigarette and lit it, and took a vicious puff, "It's not that there is news of her, it's that she sued us!" The court leaflets have all gone to the village branch! β
"Huh?!" Fang Yinan was shocked: "How is it possible?" How can she sue us? Where did she get the money? β
After asking, she panicked, "No, how dare she sue us?" β
"Why don't you dare?" Lan Yaowu said hatefully: "At the beginning, she dared to call the police and say that we sold her, but four years have passed, and her wings have become harder, so what's so strange about suing us?" β
"So what do we do? She sued us, did she want us to lose money? β
Fang Yinan walked around the courtyard, "Why is she so ruthless?" If I had known that I should have knocked her out in the first place, there wouldn't have been so much of a problem. β
The resentment and regret in her tone couldn't be hidden, Lan Yaowu heard it, threw away the cigarette in his hand, grabbed Fang Yinan's wrist and dragged the person in front of him, and sneered: "You really regret it, you weren't happy when you married me, right?" β
Fang Yinan looked at the aging and ugly face in front of her, and could no longer find the shadow that made her heart move at the beginning, and the hatred in her heart couldn't be controlled.
Lan Yaowu was even more angry after reading it, grabbed Fang Yinan's hair and punched and kicked her.
Lan Mao heard Fang Yinan's screams in the room, and silently shrank into the corner, he didn't dare to make a sound, and he didn't dare to stop it, so he pretended to be deaf and dumb.
When lying on the ground, Fang Yinan looked at the scorching sun, and two lines of turbid tears slipped from the corners of his eyes.
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Lan Yaowu planned to deny it at the beginning, and if he didn't go to the court, he should not know about it.
But Lan Shuang knew him well, so he directly brought someone to the door and arrested them to the court.
When they arrived at the court, Lan Yaowu and Fang Yinan were still scolding.
However, when they were really standing in the dock, they still couldn't stop being scared, and their legs trembled.
Lan Shuang stood in the plaintiff's seat and watched them, and they didn't even recognize it as Lan Shuang for a while.
She was wearing a black skirt, a rose-colored belt around her waist, and her long hair was braided into a whip, which was casually put on her shoulders, and a little powder was applied, which made her beauty go to the next level.
It was Lan Shuang who called out their names that they realized who the person in front of them was.
"Lan Yaowu, Fang Yinan, I haven't seen you for a long time, why are you so old?"
Lan Yaowu's eyes widened, "Lan Shuang? Is it really you? β
Lan Shuang raised her eyebrows: "Otherwise, is there a second Lan Shuang in this world?" β
"Where have you been in the past four years? You've got some big money, haven't you? Lan Yaowu turned his eyes and saw Jiang Lusheng who was listening.
"You're her concubine?"
Jiang Lusheng raised his hand and revealed the ring on his ring finger, "I'm sorry, I'm her legal and compliant husband, and our marriage relationship is protected by law, don't use your dirty thoughts to define our relationship." β
Fang Yinan looked at Lan Shuang's hand, and sure enough, she saw that she was also wearing the same ring on her ring finger.
"Why did you get married?! I didn't agree to be a father, why should you? β
Lan Yaowu shouted loudly, and immediately someone shouted: "Silence! β
Lan Shuang's lawyer arrived, the judge and others sat down in turn, and everyone arrived, and the trial officially began.
Lan Yaowu and Fang Yinan had already bitten it to death before they came, and they didn't admit it anyway, anyway, the contract and passbook were lost, there was no evidence to prove it, they weren't afraid.
However, their self-confidence was shattered after seeing the evidence Lan Shuang had produced.
The diary, the blood-stained clothes, the sales notes signed with Liu Min, and the passbooks they lost back then were all in Lan Shuang's hands.
Every time she took out something, Lan Yaowu and Fang Yinan collapsed, and when they got to the back, they couldn't defend themselves at all, so they simply sprinkled in court, saying that they were Lan Shuang's parents, and their lives were given by them, and they had the right to dispose of them.
The lawyer shook his head when he heard this, what kind of legal blindness does this become?
The judge was speechless.
Lanshuang also brought Liu Min here, and now there are all the human and material evidence, and there is no way to deny it.
According to the law, even if it is a biological parent, a person who abducts or traffics in women and children shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined. οΌ1οΌ
In addition, they abused and beat the underage Lan Shuang for a long time, and they were already suspected of intentional injury, and under the argument of Lan Shuang's lawyer, Lan Yaowu and Fang Yinan were finally punished for several crimes and sentenced to 13 years in prison, as for the fine, Lan Shuang didn't ask for it, and gave it to Lan Mao.
After all, he still has to live without parents for the next thirteen years, but how to live is not in her consideration.
And Liu Min was sentenced to eight years, and when the verdict came down, he howled and cried, Lan Shuang just watched coldly, and everyone had to pay the price for their actions, whether it was one year or four years, although the punishment was late.
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Note: (1) Quoted from the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China